- Features
- Movies & Videos Listing
Three Kinds of Viewer, Three Ways In
Some people want what you are promoting, some want a genre, and some want to see everything you have. Vodlix gives each of them their own route rather than making all three share one grid, then lets the catalogue be sorted the way somebody actually thinks about it.
A Grid Is Not a Catalogue
Every streaming service eventually has more titles than anybody can look at, and the instinct is to put them all on one page and add a search box. That serves precisely one kind of viewer, the one who already knows what they want, and abandons the other two. Somebody in the mood for something funny is not going to type. Somebody who came because you advertised a film wants that film in front of them rather than alphabetised among four thousand others. Vodlix separates those routes deliberately. Spotlight is what you are pushing, categories are for a mood, and the full listing is for the people who genuinely want to browse everything. They are different jobs and they deserve different screens.
By when you published it, by the year it came out, alphabetically, or by what is actually being watched. Ascending or descending. Four choices covers almost every way somebody wants to look at a catalogue.
A category overlay puts every genre one tap away, appearing over the listing rather than navigating away from it, so trying three moods in a row costs nothing.
The same catalogue on a television is a grid you cross with a directional pad, and on a phone it is a list you flick. Neither is the other one resized.
Sorting by Views Is the One People Forget
Published date is the default and it is the right default, because a catalogue that never changes stops being visited. Year released matters for anybody hunting something specific from a decade they remember. Alphabetical is unfashionable and genuinely useful when somebody half remembers a title. The interesting one is sorting by views, because it turns your own audience into the recommendation engine without any modelling at all. On a catalogue with real traffic it surfaces what is working far more honestly than an editorial row does, and it costs nothing to offer. Which titles are performing also shows up on your side in reports and analytics, and the rows you curate deliberately are covered under content lists.
Genres Are Cheap to Offer and Expensive to Skip
A category list is not glamorous and it is where a large share of browsing actually happens, because most people arrive with a mood rather than a title. Vodlix presents them as an overlay over the listing rather than as a separate destination, which sounds trivial and changes the behaviour completely. Trying three genres in a row costs three taps and no page loads, so viewers actually do it, whereas a category page that has to be navigated into and back out of gets tried once. The categories themselves are yours to define rather than a fixed set, which matters because the way you cut your catalogue is part of how your service differs from everybody else's. They are managed alongside the rest of your metadata and feed content search as well as the listings.
The Same Catalogue, From the Other Side
What a viewer browses is one view of a catalogue you also have to run, and at any size beyond a few hundred titles that becomes its own job. Filtering by publish state, by monetization model, by type or by conversion status is how you answer questions like which titles finished encoding, or which ones are marked as rentals when they should be included in a subscription. That side is described under movies management, and how a title is priced under monetization models. The important part is that both views read one catalogue, so a title fixed in the admin is fixed for viewers immediately rather than after somebody republishes something.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about taking advantage of this limited-time offer? Check out the FAQ for answers.